Video of the event. Tasering a man out of a mental health crisis doesn’t seem right to me.
Man does not comply, get tasered and then jumps off bridge to escape
Off all the things to bemoan the police for this seems a harsh one.
Guy threatening people with a screwdriver.
If they hadnt tasered him and he’d murdered someone theyd be hanged for not acting.
People whove never been in the situation where you have to act shouldnt be too eager to comment and judge.
Just a sad situation really
“man jumps off bridge and dies” :0
Don’t really blame police for this.
Although why there weren’t loads of them on him as soon as he hit the deck, I don’t know.
Disclaimer – haven’t seen the video.
Can’t fault the police for their actions in this case I don’t think. We should still have a full review of any police interaction which results in a persons death, though. Doing that doesn’t mean the police are at fault, it means we want to stop people dying in the future.
There are too many people who think we shouldn’t investigate police actions because we’re not all police officers having to make those decisions.
Hope the police don’t have to deal with any BS over this. They behaved perfectly reasonably and this guy with a screwdriver flung himself over the bridge. Non story here.
Police not at fault here.
You taser someone with a screwdriver, he swings the screwdriver at you you tase him again….. He then runs 15 foot and jumps into the Thames……. Yeah guy kind of had it coming
Tragic stuff all around. Poor guy, its a shame he couldn’t get more help before it was to late. I hope the officers involved get some counselling after this, no doubt their going to be spending a lot of time over the next few days wondering if their was anything they could have done differently that would have led to a different outcome, even though sadly their wasn’t.
So to sum up, a nutter threatening to murder people with a screwdriver was neutralised safely with a taser. Said nutter then managed to get back up, run off, vault a railing and throw himself in the Thames. Oh no the police brutality, somebody stop them. Honestly, with the number of legit fuck up stories coming out of the Met, how is THIS the one to publish? Gutter journalism wording it ambiguously to make it sound as if they tased a man directly into the Thames too.
It’s really not a loss to the world.
All London police are Nonces!
Play silly games, win silly prizes. Not sure what they expected.
RIP. We´re not invincible.
ERM didn’t this guy jump over the railings
What a complete and utter moron he was.
Police did fine, tried to help him instantly, even tried to stop him jumping the bridge.
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Video of the event. Tasering a man out of a mental health crisis doesn’t seem right to me.
Man does not comply, get tasered and then jumps off bridge to escape
Off all the things to bemoan the police for this seems a harsh one.
Guy threatening people with a screwdriver.
If they hadnt tasered him and he’d murdered someone theyd be hanged for not acting.
People whove never been in the situation where you have to act shouldnt be too eager to comment and judge.
Just a sad situation really
“man jumps off bridge and dies” :0
Don’t really blame police for this.
Although why there weren’t loads of them on him as soon as he hit the deck, I don’t know.
Disclaimer – haven’t seen the video.
Can’t fault the police for their actions in this case I don’t think. We should still have a full review of any police interaction which results in a persons death, though. Doing that doesn’t mean the police are at fault, it means we want to stop people dying in the future.
There are too many people who think we shouldn’t investigate police actions because we’re not all police officers having to make those decisions.
Hope the police don’t have to deal with any BS over this. They behaved perfectly reasonably and this guy with a screwdriver flung himself over the bridge. Non story here.
Police not at fault here.
You taser someone with a screwdriver, he swings the screwdriver at you you tase him again….. He then runs 15 foot and jumps into the Thames……. Yeah guy kind of had it coming
Tragic stuff all around. Poor guy, its a shame he couldn’t get more help before it was to late. I hope the officers involved get some counselling after this, no doubt their going to be spending a lot of time over the next few days wondering if their was anything they could have done differently that would have led to a different outcome, even though sadly their wasn’t.
So to sum up, a nutter threatening to murder people with a screwdriver was neutralised safely with a taser. Said nutter then managed to get back up, run off, vault a railing and throw himself in the Thames. Oh no the police brutality, somebody stop them. Honestly, with the number of legit fuck up stories coming out of the Met, how is THIS the one to publish? Gutter journalism wording it ambiguously to make it sound as if they tased a man directly into the Thames too.
It’s really not a loss to the world.
All London police are Nonces!
Play silly games, win silly prizes. Not sure what they expected.
RIP. We´re not invincible.
ERM didn’t this guy jump over the railings
What a complete and utter moron he was.
Police did fine, tried to help him instantly, even tried to stop him jumping the bridge.
That’s shocking news